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Article #1305Re: Multi Line BBS
From: Matthew Dillon
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:33
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 04:33
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In article <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
>In article <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>>
>> * If you fill up the disk and the NeXT runs out of swap it crashes
>> hard.
>> * No resource limits (NeXT ignores everything but the stack size limit)
>> * No process/thread limits
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^
>
> Surely you jest. Surely, certainly, the OS of the future is
> not so threadbare that it lacks features that most versions
> of UNIX have these days..?
What I mean to say is that the NeXT will gladly allow you to fork
processes and threads until it runs out of table space or memory, then
it crashes.
-Matt
> Rule 1: "Don't have more children than you can feed."
> Nuclear redevelopment for a better world!
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!overload!dillon From: dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.hardware Subject: Re: Multi Line BBS Distribution: world Message-ID: <dillon.0t3q@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> References: <OTTO.92Dec10034017@tukki.jyu.fi> <1992Dec18.080158.19384@netcom.com> <dillon.0t21@overload.Berkeley.CA.US> <1992Dec20.152822.29515@wam.umd.edu> Date: 22 Dec 92 20:33:24 PST Organization: Not an Organization Lines: 29